The Unicorn sighting thread.

Driving home from Summit yesterday (10% off in-store purchases!), saw this drive by... something doesn't look right... wait what???

A 2 door trunk Focus. I never knew any such thing ever existed in any generation!

Knurled wrote: Driving home from Summit yesterday (10% off in-store purchases!), saw this drive by... something doesn't look right... wait what??? A 2 door trunk Focus. I never knew any such thing ever existed in any generation!

Really? They made about a squillion million billion of them. After they stopped making the ZX3/ZX4 1st gen cars North America got a derivative of the 1st gen cars while the rest of the world got a new platform. It was a NA only car from 08 to 11 and was replaced by the C170 globally for 2012. They only made 2 and 4 door for those years. No hatches.

Don't know if this counts as a unicorn, but I think it's the only one in the country. You can see my sammy in the background.

This could go in the Obscure Re-Badge thread and/or here (I'll cross post)

I saw an Eagle Premier at lunch today similar to below. I've only ever seen one before. I know it as a Renault 21, but I guess it was also a Dodge of some kind.

I was driving home from Pitts, unfortunately I couldn't take a picture, but saw a Mini homemade convertible. They took a old school Mini and pealed off the top, look kind of interesting, unfortunately I could get a good look because it was going the other direction.

No pics but someone in my town recently acquired a VW Quantum diesel sedan. I want it real bad.

PubBurgers wrote: No pics but someone in my town recently acquired a VW Quantum diesel sedan. I want it real bad.

One of the guys we rallycross with mentioned that he picked up a couple of them for parts. Rust free cars he said, but he wanted those 1.6TD engines.

The spare hatch I have for the syncro is from a turbodiesel wagon. (The first syncro. I have, er, two of 'em...)

During my run Sunday morning, I saw one of these:

And then about five minutes later, one of these:

I just saw one of these on the way home from work yesterday. While not completely a unicorn, I can't remember seeing one in the wild here in the salty northeast for at least 5 years. Back when I daily drove an 86 CRX in college around 2001, they were already getting pretty thin on the ground.

More likely a phantom than a unicorn:

I saw a 39 4 door La Salle the other day at work. But something was off. It had radials, but that's not unheard of. It had a V8 badge, but I don't know pre-war Caddy that well. I see Good Guys and NSRA stickers in the windows, so now I know somethings up. Look underneath: 500ci V-8 and FWD. This things packing Eldo power.

Caddy made a flathead V8 prewar. Exhaust and intake ports were on the inside of the V so they didn't have the same problems the Ford Flathead V8 did.

I got to drive one with the earliest iteration of the Hydra-Matic transmission. I forget the shift pattern (I believe it is PNDLR) and I clearly remember that, being the earliest model without a critical internal clutch added to later models, you could not shift it between certain gears without first bumping it into another certain gear. I forget if it wouldn't allow Park from Drive without first going into Low, or it wouldn't allow Reverse without first going into some other gear, but it was harrowing if you didn't have the hang of it and second nature once you knew what to do.

I'd like to say it was Reverse that it wouldn't allow without the correct shift lever hokey-pokey, and that you had to engage Low, roll forward a little, then quickly get Reverse.

Adrian_Thompson wrote: This could go in the Obscure Re-Badge thread and/or here (I'll cross post) I saw an Eagle Premier at lunch today similar to below. I've only ever seen one before. I know it as a Renault 21, but I guess it was also a Dodge of some kind.

My dad had one, the digital speedo would go nuts over 99,

My dad lives in a little neighborhood in North Providence RI. that has about 30 houses. Among those 30 houses, there lives a TR8, a Buick Reatta, an Olds Trofeo, a Cadillac Catera, and a box flared 914, and a 240sx convertible. All are mint or real close to mint. Theres also a run down house with about 10 jacked up trucks/ Jeeps, a dozen motorcycles, and a permanent oil stain from the driveway down the street to the closest sewer cover.

Spotted this on I-79 South in WV a couple years back, saw a hardtop earlier in this thread the same color.

In reply to dansxr2:

Ronald McDonald would love that!

I though the same thing lol

I saw a delorean on I-65 yesterday on the way to the track. First one I've seen moving under its own power. However, every time it changed lanes, the white lines on the road disappeared.

Spotted in the parking lot next to the new Cars&Coffee Irvine. I do not know why it wasn't allowed to be with the other cars in the event.

Those are my friends behind the car ♡.

Is that an Espirit S4?

Yas!

yupididit wrote: Those are my friends behind the car ♡.

So is the Pretty Woman lotus the unicorn or the fact you have friends?

Spoolpigeon wrote: I saw a delorean on I-65 yesterday on the way to the track. First one I've seen moving under its own power. However, every time it changed lanes, the white lines on the road disappeared.

Was it doing 88 mph?

In reply to Flight Service:

He was running about 75 mph. He was either playing it safe or that was all the car could muster.

Central Kentucky has a Delorian and it belongs to one of our own. Ashkyun